"The squatters will be immediately evicted, and the owners will get their home back within 24 hours". With these words, Vox's candidate for Congress for Zaragoza, Carmen Rouco, has said this Saturday that, if her party reaches the Government of Spain after the general elections of November 29, it will push for a radical change in the response to squatting.
The statements were made in the Zaragoza district of Delicias, where, as she recalled, "this week, the National Police operation allowed another squatted drug den in Pedro de Luna street to be dismantled". Rouco insisted that these are incidents that repeat themselves "especially in the neighborhood of Delicias", citing other properties "on Montañés street or on Avenida Madrid". On her campaign stop, she was accompanied and supported by party officials such as the regional minister Luis Biendicho, the senator Javier Alonso, and the spokesperson at the Zaragoza City Council, Eva Torres.
Vox's aspiring candidate emphasized that "neighbors are fed up with squatting, brawls, and crime", and defended a model of the city in which "they can live in peace and get their neighborhoods back". She blamed the situation on the Executive of Pedro Sánchez, whom she pointed to as "culpable" because, as she has denounced, "whoever has devoted themselves to protecting the squatters, clearing the ground for them, and has acted against the legitimate right of the property owners to get their homes back".
Rouco stressed that "the recovery of housing and the defense of private property" are among the priorities of Vox's electoral program. In this context, she listed measures such as "free legal assistance for those affected and exemption from taxes and from the fiscal charges and utilities for the property while the squatting lasts".
She also highlighted that the creation of the Legal Advisory Office Against Illegal Squatting of the Zaragoza City Council is born "as a result of a motion by Vox", thereby claiming her party's contribution in this area. "We will recover security for our neighborhoods," the candidate concluded.